Episode 1.06

The Country Club

“Just to talk.” She said as she leaned forward and placed her hand over his, “I know you loved my brother, I know you were his husband.”

“I’m not Gay Bethany.” He said as he looked up at her, he studied her for a moment before he leaned over and kissed her hard on the lips.

Bethany was surprised by this action but felt herself sinking into it, the passion, desire, and the animal need forming between the two of them.

The Park

Kip and Pam were holding hands as they entered the Pinõn Hallow Park. The stars where bright above the small mountain town. The air was clean and fresh, everything was alive with only pleasant thoughts. Kip lead Pam to a bench and they looked up at the stars.

“Its so amazing here.” She said softly as her eyes studies the lights from the sky.

“Yeah, its my favorite thing to do at night. The stars have so much meaning, so much depth, and so much history. I mean think of all the people who fell in love under them, and got married, people who met their soul mates.” Kip said before turning to look at Pam. He smiled and then stood up, “Want some ice cream?”

Pam looked up at him and smiled, “Yeah that would be really sweet.”

“Great, I’ll be back in a few minutes.” He said before kissing her cheek and leaving her to gaze at the stars.

Conner’s Apartment

“Lysa!” Conner yelled for what his throat felt was the millionth time this evening as he chased his daughter around the living room.

“Daddy! I don’t want to go to bed.” She squealed as she ran around the couch and then towards her bedroom.

“Lysa!” he yelled again before he grabbed her and picked her up.

The little girl giggled and looked at her father, “I’m not tired.”

“Well its bedtime anyways Princess.” He told her as he carried her into her room and placed her in the bed of pink sheets.

Lysa looked sad as she was tucked in. “Night Daddy.” She said before a yawn over took her and she started to fall asleep.

“Night princess.” He said as he turned off the room light and clicked the dragonfly night light on.

As he closed the door behind him he heard a knocking at the front door. It wasn’t too loud and defiantly couldn’t be heard in Lysa’s room.

“Just a minute!” He called out as he moved through the hallway and living room. When he opened his door he saw Maggie, a sadness filling her eyes.

“Can we talk Conner?”

Bethany’s room at Hallow Hotel

Bethany and Chad entered the room, their lips still locked together as she pushed him against the wall, leaving him no escape before he rolled it around and she was against the wall. Their hands were all over each other as they began to tear the other’s clothes off, producing a pile on the floor before the fell onto the bed.

The Park

Pam had only been alone for a few minutes when someone grabbed her from behind and covered her mouth with their hand before pulling her into the bushes of the park.

Fear spread its way throughout Pam’s body as she tried to fight off her attacker, she tried to speak but he kept her mouth covered. She couldn’t see him in the shadows of the bushes, that didn’t stop her though from feeling him force her into his sick, needs of power. She tried to scream for him to stop, but it was muffled against his hand as her head hit the ground and she went unconscious.

Conner’s Apartment

“Yeah of course we can talk Mags, what’s going on?” He asked as he opened the door more for her to walk in.

“Bethany came and well told me that I need to stay away from you.” Maggie explained, as she began to nervously play with her hair. “It actually turned into a scene and Siobhan had to break us up.”

She paused letting it sink in for Conner as sadness started to grow on his face, “Mags, so what if Bethany wants you to stay away from me.”

Maggie looked up at him, her eyes glazed over with tears, “I think you should give her a chance to prove she at least wants to be a mother to Lysa.”

“She left us Mags, I don’t think she really has a say.” Conner said boldly.

“You owe it to Lysa.” Maggie said as she turned away from Conner so he couldn’t see her expression, “You owe it to yourself as well.”

“But what about us Maggie?” Conner asked her, feeling his heart pounding, trying to escape his body.

“We had a date Conner, we’re friends that’s how it will stay.” She said as she twisted her fingers together.

Conner turned her to face him, “I don’t want to be just your friend Mags.” He said before he pulled her closer to him and kissed her.

Bethany’s Room

She laid back on her bed and looked at Chad, “Why did we do that?” she asked.

“Well personally I wanted to.” He said sitting up and keeping the lower half of his body covered with the sheet.

“I didn’t mean that I didn’t want to, I just mean what brought it on. We were talking about you being married to my brother in that damn cult.” Her tone was bitter and acidic.

Chad looked down for a moment before locking eyes with hers, “I only joined the cult to get an inside point of view to write an article about it.” He told her, “I was never in love with Brighton. I thought at first I could play along with it but I couldn’t. He got obsessed, and when I escaped after telling the leader that I was an investigative reporter Brighton left to trying to keep our marriage together. That’s why I came back to Pinõn Hallow. I had no idea he would follow me.”

Bethany sat still and silent as she listened to Chad, her hand rubbing his back, “I wish I had known Brighton had gone that far off the deep end.” She said as she looked at the ceiling. “Ya know I tried to get him out of there.”

“Yeah he mentioned something about that.” He looked over at her, “This is going to stay just between us right?”

“Oh definitely, I plan on getting back with Conner so he can never know about us and about this.” She said.

“Good.” He said as he leaned over and started to gather his clothing.

The Park

Kip comes back with two ice cream cones but can’t find Pam. “Pam?” he calls out as he starts to look around and then he sees a pair of feet coming out from the bushes. He drops the ice cream and runs over there to find Pam, unconscious and bruised. He climbs out from behind the bushes and takes out his cell phone dialing 9-1-1. After frantically trying to tell them where he is in the park he hangs up, stuck alone waiting.

The delivery boy was walking towards where Kip had come from when he saw Kip looking panicked. “Kip, what’s wrong?” he asked when the sound of sirens in the distance started growing louder.

“Pam’s unconscious, it looks like someone attacked her.” He said as his eyes searched for the paramedics.

“Unconscious?” was all the delivery boy could say as two paramedics came rushing towards them.

“Where’s the girl?” one of them asked.

“In the bushes, I was afraid to move her.” Kip said as they rushed off behind him.

Conner’s Apartment

Maggie felt herself sinking into the kiss before she snapped herself out of it and pulled away from him. “We can’t do this Conner. Its not fair to Lysa or yourself.” She said before she walked out the door and possibly out of Conner’s life.

Bethany’s Room

Closing the door behind Chad, she felt conflicted. If she really loved Conner the way she said she did, then why did she sleep with Chad? “That’s a whole new mystery all in its own. I have another one first.” She said aloud as she went to the nightstand and took out the locket and studied it. “I don’t know how, or when but you are going to make me a very happy woman.”

Pinõn Hallow Hospital

Kip and the delivery boy were pacing the waiting room floor as they waited for news on Pam. A nurse came out and over to them, “Miss Mitchell is awake now, during the examination however the doctor discovered bruising below the waist and they’re doing a rape kit now.”

“Rape kit?” Kip said in disbelief.

“Yeah, the doctor thinks it’s a possibility.”

Kip shook his head, “I never should’ve left her alone.”